Customer Story


New scalable NHS data centre optimizes efficiency


Benefits include more room for servers, higher power density, and lower operating costs


National Health Service (NHS) Airedale, Bradford, and Leeds primary care trust (PCT) delivers health services to over 500,000 people in the UK Projections indicate that over 650,000 people will need services in just a few decades. In response, the PCT sought bids for a new data centre infrastructure to meet the current and future needs of the community and provide reliable IT services to 129 sites, including critical care.


Requirements included the ability to:


> House all necessary IT equipment with adequate power and cooling


> Replace the previous aging data centre, which was nearly out of space and cooling capacity, to facilitate IT growth


> Provide a more robust, efficient, and scalable approach to service provisioning


Their server virtualization programme had the potential of freeing up IT space. But the existing facility wasn’t suitable to support new IT server loads, high density servers, and a 4500-seat desktop virtualization project.


Additionally, bidders had to consider that IT was housed in a listed building (i.e. Statutory List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest). Therefore, avoiding structural planning complications was important. And because the building was leased, any data centre infrastructure investment had to be portable and re-usable at another site in case of a future move.


InfraStruxure architecture for on-demand data centres ‘Given our open brief’, said Martin Powis, Head of IT & Telecoms Infrastructure at NHS Airedale, Bradford, and Leeds, ‘it was interesting how many of the designs put


APC by Schneider Electric Elite Partner, APT met all of the installation and commissioning deadlines set by NHS.


forward were based around the APC by Schneider Electric InfraStruxure architecture for on-demand data centres’.


The proposal made by Advanced Power Technology (APT), an Elite Partner to Schneider Electric, was selected because it was designed to:


> Run higher power density and server temperatures more predictably with a contained hot aisle using suspended APC InRow OA overhead cooling units


> Provide ten times more processing power and almost twice the physical server space


> Accommodate space for expansion with pre-installed cabling and pipe work


> Lower operating costs and optimize efficiency


‘


The over-aisle cooling means that none of the valuable white space in the data centre is taken up with cooling equipment – providing more physical room for servers. In addition to a better managed and more productive environment, this will also enable lower operating costs’. Martin Powis, Head of IT


& Telecoms Infrastructure NHS Airedale,


Bradford, and Leeds


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